JKF Special Edition

I was a self identified libertarian conservative.   Why I held on to the notion of being conservative was the fear of being out in the frontier of political thought, and choosing instead to be where there was lots of company, even though the camp I chose was tenuous, and based on a lot of inexplicable contradictions and tenets based on faith--Faith in the overall triumph of goodness and integrity within our powerful government institutions of intelligence, defense and national security.  

When the film came out in the theaters I wouldn't even consider watching it.   I read the reviews in the conservative blogs and took on faith that it was left wing propaganda, a damning view of our country and our government, and never even studied the case, and the writings of dissenters who protested the official report of the Warren Commission's investigation.  

I follow several blogs and bloggers on my Google Home Page, and one is Lew Rockwell.  I saw a post titled "Why Three Kennedys Were Assassinated" and my first instinct was to keep browsing, and not give it a second thought.   Then I wondered who was this author, what were his credentials?   Was this figurative or literal?   I read the piece.  It was a transcript of a radio interview conducted by Lew Rockwell, interviewing Dr.  Donald Miller.    There are ads on the pages at LewRockwell, and one was for the movie, JFK, Special Edition, sold at Amazon.   I clicked on it, and read the review.  Then I went to Wikipedia and read more about the movie,  and then I decided to watch it.  

I am really troubled by the fact that I didn't have the slightest desire or interest to watch this film when it came out in the theaters.  I found an essay by Murray Rothbard which best addressed why I had no inclination to watch the film.  

In his essay, The J.F.K. Flap, Murray writes:

The most fascinating thing about JFK, as exciting and well-done as it is, is not the movie itself but the hysterical attempt to marginalize, if not to suppress it. How many movies can you remember where the entire Establishment, in serried ranks, from left (The Nation) through Center to Right, joined together as one in a frantic orgy of calumny and denunciation. Time and Newsweek actually doing so before the movie came out? Apparently, so fearful was the Establishment that the Oliver Stone movie might prove convincing that the public had to be thoroughly inoculated in advance.

I felt as if I had removed blinders from my head, and for the first time, knew, beyond a doubt, that our President had been murdered with the complicity of government agents at the highest levels of power, and that it had been covered up.   Today, there is so much work available to read, that anyone who wants to know the truth about what happened to President J.F.K. need only seek out the body of research and documents.    There is evidence that we may never see, that has been locked away from public view for decades, and some that has disappeared.  The implications of what happened are pivotal.   Our current course of history took firm hold at that point.